From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 3:35:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.224.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC5737B424 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 03:35:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by thehousleys.net (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f3NAZSI13479; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 06:35:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: from thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net [192.168.0.24]) (authenticated) by thehousleys.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3NAZQm13471; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 06:35:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <3AE4056E.9D2B7702@thehousleys.net> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 06:35:26 -0400 From: James Housley Reply-To: jim@thehousleys.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Hartmann, O." Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-newbies@freebsd-org.FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup problems with AMANDA, alternative? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Hartmann, O." wrote: > > Dear Sirs. > > I run into problems with AMANDA backing up a large disk array (250 GB). > I use 'gnutar' as dumping tool defined by GTAR within amanda in the hope > that AMANDA is capable to spread a big backup image over several tapes > like TAR does this when used without AMANDA (multi volume facility). The first place to ask would be the Amanda users mailing list, but I will try with some suggestions here. [snip] I would use dump instead of gtar for backup, unless gtar is required. You will have to change "runtape" to something greater then 1. You will also want to set "chunksize" under "holdingdisk". For a DDS4, simething around 1G should be good, to prevent too much slack. It will probable be very benificial for you to visit www.amanda.org and subscribe to amanda-users mailing list while trying to get your site setup. There you should be able to get some definitive answers Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- PC hardware is the ductape of the computer inustry... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message